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[Kevin Kofler]

Ben Boeckel wrote:
> One thing I liked a lot with my ifconfig scripts/wpa_supplicant pairing
> is that when wireless is spotty, the network doesn't keep going up and
> down. Instead, applications see lots of dropped packets. When
> reauthentication can take 5 to 10s (or more), assuming that the
> connection is steady when its just spotty can result in better behavior.
> Also nice when quickly swapping ethernet cables. A "network is gone"
> event gets different reactions from applications (particularly those
> that are NM-aware which makes those applications MUCH more annoying to
> deal with in these cases) than "some packets were lost". An option to
> "persist connections despite something probably not actually existing"
> would be nice for situations like this.

I've found NM to actually be quite tolerant of spotty wireless connections. 
In fact, usually, it's me who triggers a reconnect (or if possible, a 
connect to a different access point, e.g. when I'm at the university in a 
shared building with the business university (WU), I try switching from 
eduroam to eduroam-wu when reception of my university's eduroam is poor), NM 
just happily stays "connected" even with 100% packet loss.

        Kevin Kofler